Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

OF the Soldiers Home, at Lcayenworth.
The design is grasshopper and sunfiower
joined with a ribbon, on which is emolaz-
oned an gold letters the word kansas"
GOVERNOR MARTIN has revoked his quar-
| antine proclamation against Illinois cattle,
except IN so far as it applies to Cook Coun-
ty. Cattle shipped from Cook County will
be held in quarantine at Kansas City ninety
days.
ACCORDING 20 the report recently filed
with the Governor by the census taker of
Grant County, the total number of inhabi-
tants of the new county is ZIG, and the
number of house-holders SGD. The total
amount of personal property is S2l $50,
| while the real estate valuation is S3l6, ITO,
| making a total of 1914, 756 worth OF prop
| erty. The total number of votes cast in the
county seat contest was 900. of which
| Ulysses, for temporary county seat, re-
ceived 532 and Cincinnati 3SS, majority OF
1874 for Ulysses.
SUPERINTENDENT WILDER, of the Insur
| ance Department, has revoked the authori-
| ty OF the Salina Mutual Fire Insurance
Company to do business in the State
THE post-offices at Newbern, Dickinson
| County, and Wild Horse, Graham County,
have been discontinued.
THE barn at the police headquarters in
| Topeka was burned the other morning by
| an incendiary fire. In the ruins were found
the charred remains of Colonel g. G.
/ Graves, a German attorney of the city.
Y The city lost four head of fine horses and
| patrol wagon. The loss about 81, 00Oi
| no insurance Graves was the Colonel of Il
| Wisconsin regiment during the war and
| Brigadier-General of the Kansas National
Guards under Clicks administration.
THE Atlantic express on the Santa Fe
! collided with a construction train near
| Halliday, about fourteen miles west of Kan
| sas City, at 3:55 o'clock the other after
| ON hn6 ,
| and one of the laborers on the construction
! train received injuries that may prove
! fatal.
PENSIONS lately granted Kansas veter-
! ans: Vinton Russell Strong; Daniel Nc
Cornell, National Military Home; Jacob
De Roga, Coffeyville; John II. Morgan,
| Burden; Moses 7. McGrew, National Mill
tary Home; Joseph Cheney. Pittsburgh;
Thomas A. Metcalf, Wellington; Stephen
| Avery, Harmon; Christian F. Boyer, Ma
>tional Military Home; William H. Richie,
l. Concordia; Patrick Lyden, Lincoln Cen
ter; Jasper NJ. Boston, Russell; John Will
son, Paola; John Durham, Greenleaf; John
e. Evans, Veteran; Tolman Hooker, Wich-
Ita; Andrew Tressler Americas; George
w. Lemon, Brenham; Ambrose F. Wade,
Keeene; Dominick Gaffney, Atchison. De-
/ pendents: Helena H, widow of Joel John
son, Wyandotte; minor of George w. 81
mons, Garnett. Increase: Perrin d.
land; Marion l.. Medlar, Galena; Thomas
b. Smith, Iuka.
THE other night about twelve o'clock the
house owned and occupied by Calvin Pratt,
at Augusta, was destroyed by fire. Pratt's
wife said he came home intoxicated and
began quarreling with her and children,
and finally threw a lighted lamp into the
bed at the children, setting fire to the bed.
Later Pratt was found in a chicken coop
with three CHASTITY cuts in his throat and
was lying in critical condition. He had
done the work with old scythe.
IN answer to a circular recently sent out
by Labor Commissioner Betton, sixty nine
counties of the State sent in answers to the
queries as to the cost of maintaining pau
pers. From this is gathered the fact that
the total cost of maintaining the poor farms
in We counties reporting for the past year
was $50, 019.55. Total relief furnished out
side of the poor farm, S115, So; making a
grand total of S203, 231. 08 as the cost of the
poor in the sixty nine counties. The mini
mum number of paupers in the same coun-
ties was given at 90S or a fraction over one
pauper for every l 900 inhabitants.
New post-offices recently established in
Kansas Elgin, Chautauqua County,
Thomas Leahy, postmaster; Clugh, Chey-
enne County, James NJ. Clugh, postmaster,
and Westola, Morton County, James K.
Estis, postmaster.
JOHN II. MERRIAM, of Kansas, has been
appointed to 81, 300 clerkship in the War
Department.
RECENT fire at Weir City destroyed a
whole block, which consisted OF the bank,
opera house, a store and other business
houses, almost all belonging to James
Denim. The loss was about $50 600; fully
covered by insurance.
DIR. A. q. ABDELAL, member OF the
Board of Pension Examiners at Lawrence,
was recently arrested by Deputy United
States Marshal upon the charge of having
demanded and extorted large sums OF
money from various claimants for pensions,
who were ordered before the board for ex-
animation by the Pension Bureau. TIE
Comm ssioner of Pensions also issued an
order removing DR.. AbdeIal. He waived
an examination and gave bonds for his APP
pearance at the October term of court.
THE rear and half OF the north walls of
the Daisy Craw ORR Opera House at Wichi- !
ia fell the other morning and in the even
ing the south wall fell Loss. $50, 900. L o
brick work was almost comp. eted- Bal
brick and worse mortar were assigned as
the cause. Preparations had been made
for opening the house October TO- This IS
ow impossible, and it is even thought the
building must be entirely torn down and
erected new. II such is the case the loss
will be $4,000.
c. L. WICKEs. a prominent real estate !
agent OF Topeka, was shot by w. w. Kitch-
ell, of the hardware firm of Kitche1 q |
Marburg, of that city, the other day, and
died few hours afterward, the ball en-
tering the LETT eye at the inner corner /
and lodging in the brain. The shooting /
was purely accidental. Wickes had par |
chased revolver ut the hardware store /
and stopped in TO trade it for another of /
different action. KItche.l showed MIN sew /
eral which he took from the show case and /
while handling one of them, which he had /
not the re hottest idea was loaded, the /,
weapon was accidentally discharged.
LATE reports to the State Board of Agri- !
culture are to the effect that al hough Kan |